Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them. From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force-one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz's great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
ISBN-13
9781400042517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96328346
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jazz Poems
Author
Kevin Young
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
165mm
Item Width
113mm
Item Weight
227g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Kevin Young
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